Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-09-01
LOCAL BREYITIES.
The regular monthly meeting OF the CITY
: ,ool Board will be held tonight

The regular monthly meeting of the CITY
5 .ool Board will be held tonight.
Tie report 10 circulation on the streets
Yesterday that Mr. p. 81. Hooff had dieu IN
Washington was incorrect.
Reed birds On toast. deliciously served,
are among the delicecies to be hod 1T the
Exchange and Ballard.
marriage license was Issued in Wash
inr,on Yesterday to John I. HardG and
Dinnie Matthews, both Of Loudoun County.
The old bridge over the V. N. railroad at
V. NJ. Junction. Charlottesville, has been
replaced by substantial structure.
The 235 train which connected from War
reuton with ;he train from Washington CITY
at Manassas will be Discontinued after to-
day.
During the month Of August forty seven
deeds were recorded and four marriage
licenses issued by the clerk OF the Corpora
lion Court
Mai. II. w. Newly has offered his ser.
vices, free of charge, for making the pre-
liminary surveys OF the proposed Mt. Yer
non avenue.
MI Ernest Ballenger, while killing calf
at his slaughter house near this city on tues
day, badly cnt his hand aud ispow suffering
from the wound.
Dr.. Birdsall desires it stated thst he did
not sec Mrs. Bowers, whose sudden death
was mentioned in yesterdays GAZETTE, un-
til she was dead, nor did he prescribe for
her at all.
The steamer George Law, which has been
running between Petersburg and Clare
mont on James river, has been taken oil that
line, and to-day passed up the river TO
Washington.
During August 293 boats, carrying 32,S02
tens of coal, cleared from Cumberland on
The canal. The revenue was about Sll ,000.
The month is the heaviest of the season so
ar, aud would have been much heavier had
it rot been for the break.
Edward A. Withse, who was admitted to
the Aims House on Tuesday last, died at
that institution yesterday, of catarrh Of the
stomach, aged 80 years. He came TO this
city from Boston and had recently been a
watchman at the Braddock House.
To day is the beginning of the oyster
longing season in Maryland Many of the
sChooner5 which have been engaged In the
fruit and truck trade will now go into oys
ter carrying, and others are getting resdy
for the dredging, which comes on later
4 Richmond and Danvile locomotive,
which had backed from the Washington
and Ohio depot to Union street, jumped the
track pear the corner Of Princess and Union
streets about noon to day. While workmen
were engaged in getting the locomotive on
the track again her exhaust pipe blew out,
enveioping the engine in cloud of steam
and oocasioning CONSERVATION among the
crowd of people who had gathered in the
vicinity. No one was injured and in faw
hours the locomotive was gotten on the
track and taken to the depot.
Capt Webster received letter from Wcdowcc,
Ala, 20 day asking for a description Of Billy
Williams, the supposed murderer of Officer ar
mold
Mrs. William Duncan, an old resident of the
city, died at her home, near the canal basin, yes
tcrday after brief illncas
A fog prevailed on the river early this morning
but lifted soon after sunrise.
Numbers of gunners visited the marshes near
this city this mornsng TO shoot reed birds, but
had little sport, as they found but few birds.
I colored man who had stolen whcelbarrow
from Mr.. =. Webb some weeks ago was arrested
By that gentleman to-day and turned over to the
p5liec authorities.
The "old reliable"--Dr Sage's Catarrh